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It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as fu

It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums. – “Fitz-Greene Halleck as a Poet,” Hours at Home: A Popular Monthly of Instruction

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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it… – George Santayana, “Chapter VIII: Prerational Morality,” The Life of Reason: Volu

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Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers. – W. H. Auden

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We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin

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